Transiting Jupiter can have a profound effect while making a sextile to your natal Mars. The timing usually lasts about 6 to 8 weeks depending on whether Jupiter moves into its retrograde cycle.
Currently (August 2024) Transiting Jupiter will move into retrograde on October 8, 2024, and it will be at 21° in the sign of Gemini. Its stationary period is about one day. This stationary period is very intense for those who have a planet at this degree, especially those that have major aspects within 1-3° direct from the natal chart to this position.
Jupiter’s
influence, while in retrograde, will last many months and those affected will
feel its intensity when it crosses the degrees of influence in their personal
natal chart.
We are
discussing the sextile in this post, but the trine is also similar to the
effects of the sextile, and both are energies we hope and wait for. The sextile implies opportunities that will
be presented and that we need to act to take advantage of. The sextile is a positive aspect and
indicates openings and prospects for when things might flow in a more
constructive manner.
Jupiter is
the most opportunistic planet in Astrology. Jupiter provides growth, expansion,
good luck, rewarding experiences and allows things to move forward. When applied to challenging situations like
someone experiencing a fatal disease or illness with no prospect of recovery,
it can also indicate the ending of situations pushing things ahead so that no
further suffering takes place.
With
Transiting Jupiter Sextile Mars, we have a great push to advance in some
manner, depending on the houses involved in our chart. The houses are areas of life, and this will
be where these energies are initiated. Wherever
Mars is located in the Natal Chart, this will be the area which offers
opportunities for growth and expansion.
If, for
example, Mars is tied to the MC (midheaven), this will suggest that
opportunities in abundance may lie within the scope of your career or ties in
with your objectives and path in life.
Your status may change and this flows in a smoother manner. With the
sextile, however, you must take advantage of the energies at hand, or they may
not manifest in the manner that they could if you were to push for results.
If Jupiter
is travelling through your 11th house and it makes a Sextile to your
Mars/MC’s position, you may receive help from groups or from friends to make
things happen. If Jupiter is travelling
through the 12th house and still making this sextile to your Mars/MC,
assistance may come from unknown sources, or you may receive help from the
subconscious or other realms of influence.
This may be hidden from you or perhaps you do not know about this energy
or where it has come from.
Transiting
Jupiter Sextile Natal Mars is an aspect of great expansive, beneficial energy.
It is an energy, however, that you must work with. The benefit will not simply fall in your lap.
Take advantage if this transit is affecting your chart.
A
professional Astrologer can help you understand the potential with this aspect
and other aspects forming angles within the natal chart.
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